Collection of 21 manuscript financial documents from one of the first American companies dedicated to extracting and selling oil outside the United States. Known variously as the Peruvian Refinery Company, Peruvian Refining Company, Peruvian Petroleum Company and Peruvian Petroleum and Refinery Company, the company was founded by James Bishop --..... (Item #21378)

New York: Duell, Sloane, & Pearce. Hardcover. Very good in a Good dust jacket. Sixth printing, with no date on title page; copyright 1948. 263 pp, plus and additional 64 pp of photographs. Topographic map of Machu Picchu and vicinity on the front endpapers. Previous owner's address stamp on front..... (Item #21875)

London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1963. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in a Near Fine dust jacket. Translated by Basil Creighton. 190 pp, illustrated with b/w photos. An as-new copy in a clean dust jacket with slight edgewear. Documents two major expeditions into the jungles between Palenque and Copan on the Yucatan..... (Item #13248)

Gainesville, FL: College of Architecture and Fine Arts, University of Florida, 1975. First Edition. Softcover. Near fine. Catalogue of an exhibition shown and documented in conjunction with the special photographic exhibition Machu Picchu of the Inca, with photography by Roy C. Craven Jr. (36) pp, stapled wrappers. Illustrated with 28..... (Item #14777)

[Palo Alto, CA]: Dramatists' Alliance of Stanford University, 1944. First Edition. Softcover. Very good. 106 pp, ca. 8.5 x 11 inches, original illustrated wrappers. Moderate handling wear, including creasing to cover resulting from a binding error; very good. Second volume in the Coester Series of Translations from the drama of..... (Item #20734)

Soft cover. Fine. Facsimile reprint of the original pamphlet printed in London in 1743. Stapled binding, printed on faux-parchment. Clean, tight, unmarked. "Bitter vindication of [Knowles'] conduct in the disastrous Cartagena expedition, during which he served as surveyor and engineer of the British fleet" (Swann). (Item #12679)

New York: The Viking Press, 1961. First Edition. Hardcover. Near fine in a very good dust jacket. Sunning to top 1/8 ionch of spine, else a fine copy. Dust jacket has some chipping to the top of the spine, is lightly rubbed along the joints and at the corners, and..... (Item #20666)

Chicago: A.C. McClurg, 1909. First Edition. Hardcover. Very good. Two volumes (pp. 312; 331) bound in illustrated blue cloth, with more than 50 illustrations from photographs and 4 maps (3 folding). Light rubbing to extremities, spines toned (but fully legible). Internals clean and sound. Bookplate of S. James Tuffree on..... (Item #14478)

Paris: Arthus Bertrand, 1853. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. Xlvi, 383 pp, with a preface by the translator, A. Giraud. Dark pebbled cloth with five raised bands, marbled endpapers. Tight binding, light foxing, a few marginal pencil lines. First French edition of Sarmiento's most famous book, considered one of the..... (Item #13461)

Gainesville, FL: University Gallery, College of Architecture and Fine Arts, University of Florida, 1971. First Edition. Softcover. Fine. Exhibition catalogue. (20) pp, with introductory essay, map, b/w illustrations from photos of the textiles exhibited. As new, in original stapled wrappers. (Item #14778)

Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1849. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. pp. x, [13]-386, in publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth. Losses to spine ends, corners rubbed through, slightly shaken, but still a better than average copy of this title, which is often found in poor condition. Hill (1910): The ships made port in..... (Item #20650)